G.L. Pease Recommendations Please

[Perique]

Haddo's Delight

Cairo

Barbary Coast

 

[tbradsim1]

I was gifted a sample of Quiet Nights by Chris Jones, really like it, will definetly get some more. The old cajun

 

[blackbeard]

I enjoyed the perique in H&H Frenchy's Sunzabitches, the nutty flavor in ole shenandoah, and want a thick, stout smoke. About to move off trying aromatics and am looking to try something from GLP after reading around. This seemed the place to ask.

 

[perdurabo]

Haddos Delight, Piccadilly, Gaslight, Sextant, Barbary Coast, these are the only Pease blends I've tried. I have more in the cellar waiting. I love all the blends I mentioned. They stand out for me as some of the finest tobaccos that I have tried. Piccadilly was a blend that I wanted to try because it was similar to C&D Buffalo Soldier. Having tried it, I liked c&d Buffalo Soldier better.

 

[rhoadsie]

@Tyler: This seems like a good time to partake in the October tobacco crawl with G.L. Pease and four of his blends...Sixpence, Jackknife plug, Sextant and Quiet nights. :puffpipe:

 

[bigpond]

It all depends on what you like. Imo Pease' best blends live in the margins and Key Largo is a classic example.

 

[jpmcwjr]

BP-

What does living in the margins mean?
Tyler-

I second the notion to join—or at least read— the Crawl. Sixpence nicely fills the OP's search inherent in his question!

 

[bigpond]

Outside of classic styles or in between styles; i.e. hybrids. In retrospect I was a wee bit opaque.

 

[gloucesterman]

I think Chelsea Morning will give you what you're looking for. It's a light English blend, very tasty but not at all heavy. Greg calls it a Breakfast Blend and I would second that characterization. I smoke that and Piccadilly (VA/per) early in the day. Navigator is also quite good but decidedly stronger in its flavors.

 

[blackbeard]

I am limited on money and have plans for next purchase, room for one more when I can. Will make a note of them. Thanks.

 

[disinformatique]

Union Square, Triple Play, SixPence, Montgomery, Cairo, Embaracadero, Stratford, Fillmore, Telegraph Hill, Cumberlabd, Barbary Coast, JackKnife Plug,

 

[dochudson]

Gaslight, Key Largo and Sextant.

 

[mso489]

Triple Play was an immediate hit with me. Trouble is, I smoked right through the tin in a week or two. The constituent leaf and the proportions are so well done. Hard to beat.

 

[brass]

Join the tobacco crawl this month and you can get Greg Pease himself to make recommendations.

 

[bulldogbriar89]

My 3 favorite G.L Pease blends are tripleplay, jackknife, then Cumberland. All his blend are good though

 

[frozenchurchwarden]

I'm still on a Latakia binge so for me it's Quiet Nights and Gaslight.

Some day I'll get around to Charring Cross, Odyssey, Meridian and Westminster, but all have been highly reviewed.

 

[uncleblackie]

Frozenchurchwarden, if you're binging on Quiet Nights and Gaslight, I'd recommend Odyssey and Westminster next. Haven't tried Meridian yet but Charing Cross, while good, was just slightly lacking in the richness that I get with the four previously mentioned blends.

 

[frozenchurchwarden]

Thanks Uncle.

After your recommendation I think I'm going to go straight to Meridian. Opinions arond this blend seem as varied as the components. It's not a Lat-bomb but anything with flavor out the wazoo should be a good smoke for me, this one sounds like it could go either way.

One reviewer, after initially not liking it, wrote "Meridian- Medium Latakia, creamy bacon Oriental flavor". If anything is worth a shot in the dark, and maybe a bit of time in the cellar, this would be it.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

I think that Greg's work is so masterful, that I could blindly reach into the cellar and pull out any of his blends and enjoy it, ...and I am not a fan of latakia, but I like his use of it.
Try them, you may or may not like the one you picked, but give it a chance.

 

[frozenchurchwarden]

I can definitely appreciate that Greg is a career blender and at the top of his game, but it's still mostly the Lat-bombs that move me.

Which is maybe a little sad to say given how much effort does go into the other blends. Maybe in five or ten years I'll come around to it.